Um, was not the boss of the Principality, which owns the closing EA chain, on a BBC Wales programme about house prices only a few weeks ago saying that he did not think that house prices would fall that much? Didn't he say that the credit crunch was over-played with regard to hosue prices or something like that?

The success or failure of your deeds does not add up to the sum of your life. Your spirit cannot be weighed. Judge yourself by the intention of your actions and by the strength you faced the challenges that have stood in your way.

The people closest to you have been trying to tell you that you have made a difference. That you did change things for the better. The Universe is vast and we are so small. There is really only one thing that we can ever truly control - whether we are good or evil.

The political triumph of the American Right has been to advance relentlessly the economic interests of the country's richest people, while emphasising a swath of moral, social and foreign policy issues that motivate and certainly distract middle-class and poor voters.